jap. SMS FM-chip set!!

bought space harrier (294yen) and capain silver (924yen) today. sorry, yakumo but you was right. some games really reach prices over 3000yen and more. unfortunatelly i "saw" a lot of cheap games just as aleste few month ago for below the 1000yen mark. today i even couldn't find one :crying:

 

Hmm, maybe I'm going mad ? I'll have a check on Wednesday.

Yakumo

 

Hum, I would tend to agree with Yakumo, being a user of MD jap for 15 years, I would swear it output stereo throught the AV, for sure it does it through the jack plug and it's written on the box.

I don't understand why SEGA would not make it stereo, the PC Engine does it anyway.

Time to get the MD out of the box and plug on my TV.

Sabre

 

but on the other hand you will not find any stereo AV-cables for the MD in japan, which tells us what?

 

I have some Or are they for the PC Engine? Either way they fit the MD. When I lived in Europe I used the Mega Drive via Scart and I'm sure that gave stereo as well. Oh well, only one more day to wait until I can check.

Yakumo

 

yes, i hink those one are for the pce. also when i ordered MD RGB cables, always i got the scart with the audio L/R bypass for the headphone jack.

 

Well been around google and found one page in french saying MD 1 mono MD2 stereo, here is the link translated and an extract:

"Megadrive II left in 1992-1993. It was more compact, the sound button of adjustment and the catch helmet were removed in order to propose a less expensive console (the hardware also was re-examined and compacted). The outgoing signal of the console by the péritel (SCART) is now in stereophony. This version was alas known for its brittleness. As for first Megadrive, it was declined in 3 versions (Jap, Us, Euro)."

Translation is indeed funny, apparently the acronym "MD" when translated from french to english means MANDELEVIUM. :shrug: waft?

Sabre

 

You know whats very cool, some exclusive USA games have FM support. You need a special adaptor to play USA SMS games on you japanese console, they cost about 20 us dollars. Some of those games are Double Dragon and Ys.

 

yes, you can find the infos here: http://www.smspower.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8714

and here some western games which will support FM on a jap. SMS:

Altered Beast
California Games
Cloud Master
Galaxy Force
Rampage
Rastan
Rescue Mission
Scramble Spirits
Time Soldiers
Vigilante
Wonder Boy III

 

The reason why stereo audio wasn't brought to the AV connector on the MD1 was because there weren't enough pins for RGB, composite *AND* stereo. The reason why PCE could have stereo out was because the PCE connector didn't include RGB. Everyone knows this o_0;